HARTSFEST
MONDAY 26 JUNE 2023
RGS HARTSWOOD
RGSMUSIC
HARTSFEST PROGRAMME
Welcome to HartsFest 2023! I hope that, as you read this, the sun is shining and you're relaxing with a picnic in eager anticipation of the evening ahead. (In the event of more inclement weather, jumpers and brollies at the ready!).
This evening is a culmination of a year's worth of music from our wonderfully talented students. You will hear performances from each of our ensembles, featuring students from every year group from First Form to Upper Sixth playing everything from Gloria Gaynor to Henry Mancini, Elgar to Nina Simone. I am delighted to welcome back the Corps of Drums who will open and close the evening with their customary prowess, our Music Partnership Choir comprising students from RSM, St John's Primary School and Lime Tree Primary School, and our new-for-2023 Parent Choir. I feel very proud to share such a rich musical community with you this evening and hope that you enjoy it as much as we plan to!
Thank you for all the support you have given RGS Music this year. It is hugely appreciated and as we bring this year to a close, we already look ahead to another busy, fulfilling year of music to come.
Joanna Korzinek – Director of Music
Corps of Drums Parade
Grass
Swing Band 2 Main Stage
Seven Nation Army White
Uptown Funk Ronson/Mars
Senior Brass Ensemble Bandstand
Star Wars Suite Williams arr. Maxwell
Theme from Monsters Inc Newman arr. Maxwell
Junior & Senior Girls’ Voices Main Stage
You Will Be Found Pasek/Paul arr. Huff
Guitar Ensemble Main Stage
To The Fifth Power Stang/Feldstein
Parisienne Walkways Moore/Lynot arr. Legg
Leavers’ Sessions – Jemima Hain/Ella Herbert Bandstand
Dakota Jones
Boys’ Choir Main Stage
What About Us Moore/Mac/McDaid arr. Brymer
Junior Brass Ensemble Bandstand
Gonna Fly Now
Continue/Robbins/Connors arr. Maxwell
Theme from Great Escape Bernstein arr. Maxwell
Concert Band Main Stage
Selections from Chicago Ebb/Kander
Bruno Mars Greatest Hits Mars
Horn Ensemble Bandstand
Someone To Watch Over Me Gershwin arr. Coghill
Hedwig’s Theme Williams arr. Story
Bill & the Rockafellas
Main Stage
Police On My Back The Clash
Sax Ensemble Bandstand
Hawaii Five-O Stevens arr. Keyes
Baby Elephant Walk Mancini arr. Keyes
Theme from Rocky Conti arr. De Vos
Percussion Ensemble
Main Stage
Misirlou Dale arr. Osborn
Memories of Spain Barrak/Osborn
Leavers’ Sessions – Miranda Sturt Bandstand
Don’t Let Me Down Crookes
Symphony Orchestra
Main Stage
Jazz Waltz no.2 Shostakovich
The Typewriter Anderson
Leavers’ Sessions – Ruby Skinner Bandstand
Something Stupid Sinatra
Partnership Project
Main Stage
St John’s Primary School – Dance The Night Dua Lipa
Lime Tree Primary School – Mary Poppins Medley arr. Billingsley
Reach Dennis/Todd arr. Knapp
Clarinet Ensemble Bandstand
The Teddy Bear’s Picnic Bratton arr. Walton
Hallelujah Cohen arr. Frédéric Quintet
Polyphony
Main Stage
Somebody That I Used To Know Gotye arr. Liddle
Polyphony & RGS Parent Choir
Lovely Day Withers/Scarborough arr. Gibson
God Only Knows Wilson/Asher
RGS Chorus
Main Stage
Dancing Queen Ulvaeus/Andersson arr. Emerson
Leavers’ Sessions – Neyha Kamaluddin Bandstand
The Winner Takes It All Ulvaeus/Andersson
Sinfonia
Main Stage
Thinking Out Loud Sheeran
Disco On The Water Various arr. Vin/Murtha/Hare
Leavers’ Sessions – Esther Wigley Band Stand
Suddenly I See Tunstall
Swing Band
Main Stage
Spiderman Harris/Webster
Feelin’ Good (guest singer Eleanor Morgan) Newley
Jazz Police Goodwin
Symphony Orchestra & Corps of Drums
Main Stage
Lord of the Dance Hardiman arr. Chatburn
Pomp & Circumstance Elgar
Land of hope and glory
Mother of the free
How shall we extol thee
Who are born of thee
Wider still and wider
Shall thy bounds be set
God who made thee mighty
Make thee mightier yet
God who made thee mighty
Make thee mightier yet
RGS MUSIC CALENDAR 2023-2024
Thursday 12 October GSC & Polyphony at St Matthews Church
Tuesday 17 October Unplugged
Saturday 21 – Wednesday 25 October Music Tour to Barcelona
Wednesday 15 November Informal Concert
Tuesday 21 November RGS in Concert at Dorking Halls
Wednesday 29 November Piano & Strings Showcase
Wednesday 13 December Carols By Candlelight
Tuesday 16 January Wind & Brass Showcase
Thursday 18 January Informal Concert
Friday 26 January Jazz After Dark
Tuesday 20 January
Thursday 1 February
Instrumental & Vocal Evening - Part 1
Instrumental & Vocal Evening - Part 2
Monday 5 February Informal Concert
Wednesday 7 February Choral and Vocal Recital
Wednesday 21 February Plugged
Monday 26 February – Saturday 2 March School Production ‘Anything Goes’
March (date tbc) RGS in Concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tuesday 30 April Leavers’ Concert
Wednesday 8 May Informal Concert
Tuesday 14 May Lower School Unplugged
Monday 17 June Battle of the Bands
Tuesday 18 June Informal Concert
Monday 24 June HartsFest
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